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US gun outside London attraction was a revolver? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

rotated

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'london attraction was a revolver?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'us gun outside' is the wordplay.
'us' becomes 'tate' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'gun' becomes 'rod' (rod is a kind of gun).
'outside' is an insertion indicator (some letters go outside others).
'tate' put inside 'rod' is 'ROTATED'.

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(Other definitions for rotated that I've seen before include "Turned in a circle around an axis" , "Revolved" , "Turner did?" , "took part in revolution" , "Went round" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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